The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-04-30
WRITTEN FOR "THE UNION"
THE EIGHTH DISTRICT.
Luthervlle and its Handsome Residences
Texas and it's Many Lime Kilns-
Cockeysville, Marble
Hill, &C., &c.

| Cockeysville, Marble
Hill, &C., &c.
The pretty village of Lutherville is now busily
preparing for the summer season. Gardeners are
| clearing away the refuse of a winters discomfort
| and the carpenters and painters seem to be in the
| heyday of industry. The Landon House, with
accommodations for 200 guests, and half dozen
minor resorts are being Furnished up, while the
Seminary, which has been conducted continuous
ly since 1852 during fall and winter sessions, will
| also be the abiding place of the summer fashion
able sojourner. New buildings are also showing
| themselves in architectural beauty. Two hand
| some structures being erected by Mr.. John p.
| Sadtler and two commenced last year by the Rev.
| DR.. Morris are completed.
| Luthervlle, with its many surrounding high
hills and deep valleys, illustrates the most beauti
| full cantons of Switzerland, and mans handiwork
| in unison with Nature makes a visit series of
| glad surprises. The maj stic mansion houses,
with towers and cupolas; the Gothic, Queen Anne
and Swiss styles of architecture, surrounded with
| gardens and shrubbery; the vine-clad cottages
| and the winding roads through woodlands to main
highways. combine scenes of grandeur and repose.
| The chief dwelling portion of the village
run-out tobacco farm till purchased by stock
| company in 1857, and now many of the leading
| Baltmoreans make it their summer abiding place,
| and not few their year round home Capitalists,
| bankers, professional men and prominent mer-
chants have expended thousands and thousands
| of dollars upon home establishment and the result
is truly grand Lutherville is the home of its first
of its first settler, the Rev. DIR. John G. Morris,
who located in 1858. The reverend gentleman,
although so years of age still oficaes ministerial
| ly. He is member of half dozen scientific as
socatons in America and England; he was the
owner of the Female Seminary in that place, and
has also been prominently connected with the
Gettysburg (Pa.) Seminary. He is vice president
of the State Historical Society, president of the
! Baltimore County Historical Society, director of
the House of Refuge, and pillar in church organ
| izatons.
| Amid the most beautiful structures which har-
monize in grandeur there is the mansion of Col.
| John G. Cockey, president of the Towsontown
| National Bank Mr.. Charles Markell, the spice
merchant of Baltimore has lovely home, and
chat of Mr.. Andrew Reese, president of the Howard
Fire Insurance Company, shows that capital and
taste have gone hand in hand. Charles W. Ridge
| w. ESQ, attorney, has built a residence which
would grace any boulevard, and the home of Mr.
Samuel Appod, retired capitalist, shows hearts
ease and content. Mr.. Henry Kellogg, also re-
| tired from the busy marts of commerce, has shown
| his idea of ga home devoutly to be wished" and
| Col. Edwin S. Young, assistant general ticket
agent of the Northern Central Railroad has proven
his usual foresight in location and enterprise in
his architectural choice. Mr.. George I. Richard
| son, of insurance fame, also has his handsome
residence in Lutherville and the home of the late
and revered Judge Emory is amid the monuments
| to its greatness.
Lutherville has now 10 telephones in operation
and Is more it is expected, will soon be added.
Several of the many capitalists are agitating for
electric light and with fourteen local trains each
way daily, what more can the ambitious desire for
| a summer resort, two miles from Towsontown, tho
| county seat and nine miles from the city of Bal
| timore.
Northward from Lutherville the splendid turn
| pike invites quick pace to good half-mile raco
| track past cabins and farms, streams and
| along marginal woods until the smoke from the
many lime kilns of Texas appears.
| Mr.. George Anderson, who located in 1885, owns
| half dozen houses and a fifty-three farm,
yet at 6S years of age he cheerily gives forth the
anvil chorus.
Koran & Parks have rented building from Mr..
Anderson and opened an excellent grocery house,
with Mr.. ]. w. Shea, young commercial college
graduate as chief clerk. Along the railroad part
| of Texas are many stores and numerous improve
! ments are noticeable; many of the lime-kiln COM
! panies are building new kins of solid masonry
| The lime manufactured at Texas is considered
equal to the Genoa (Ohio) and Huntington
| Tndiana) product, either for building or agricul-
turaI purposes, and the several companies have
formed an organization for mutual protection.
From Texas the section is thicky settled and
the thriving village of Cockeysville extends over
a mile As Texas is famed for lime, so Jockeys
Vile is noted for its unsurpassed marble, and when
the celebrated quarries of Rutland, Vermont, could
not supply the desired lengths for Washingtons
| grandest pillars and monument, Cockeysvile was
resorted to and grandy has she maintained her
reputation. Not only in quality as to purity and
! durability but also to immensely, Cockeysville
is ahead of the United States in its production OF
| marble and its quarries and mills are behind on
orders. With the prosperity of the region dill
| gence and enterprise has been enthused and Henry
| kba o,d afr
citizens. He has transformed a neglected lot into
perfect garden. He has greenhouse redolent
and beautiful with Floro'e ohoiceet ,ifts en-
acres devoted to bedding and vegetable plants,
aised,by 100 SASH and his complete stores index
| that which energy can accomplish. Cockeysville
| is constant thoroughfare, teams going to and
coming from the city from early morn till dark
ness closes Ger the Its harness factory the
most extensive between Baltimore and York, Pa,
comes in right handily. J. A. Thuma has lately
| produced a set of harness valued OF $3.50, and he
is occupying capital building for display and
skill. Cockeysville, with its several showings OF
addition, has new bakery, with frst-class oven
and ice.cream house, started by George Richmond,
and it is also noted for being one of the very few
points possessing distillery famed for the purity
ofits product. Above the dstilery, along noun
tain side is splendid young forest, every tree OF
which was planted by Gov. Thomas Chase, and
the entire scenery is romantic and hallowed in
| "reminiscences.
Speaking with J. Thomas Tracey, of Jockeys
willie, he stated emphatcally that Baltimore coun-
| ty has the best timber in the world, and in his
carriage repository showed splendid vehicles man
ufactured therefrom. The Tracey Works stand
very prominently in the village and measure
45x50 feet, two stories in height with workshed
| 50x3O feet. He employs five men and many OF
BaI.imore's nattiest buggies are from his factory.
The splendid turnpike through this place is
kept in excellent order and ought to be, Judging
by the frequency of toll-gates.
Leaving Cockeysville, and ascending long hill
which looks down upon that village and Ashland,
you come to a toll gate and wayside inn and in
less than a-quarter of a mile you are greeted at
another by magistrate A. W. Ensor, who controls
the gate at Marble HILL the junction of the York
and Western Run turnpikes. Mr.. Ensor studied
law in earlier years and was duly admitted to the
bar He has been magistrate now for one year
and served two terms previously, and he is also
conducting harness factory, which he lately es-
| tablshed and which is gaining daily more patron
age through skill and fair prices
Marble Hill, although very small village, has
supplied the entire surrounding country, sales
ranging from 5000 to $500 per day for general
merchandise from one establishment. This is a
two-story structure, 60 feet 'front.' and has over 1t
very attractive hall, comfortably seated for 25O
| people. Church services are held therein each
Sunday, the hall being let gratuitously by VIM.
H. Wight, ESQ.,, the whole souled proprietor OF the
building, and occasionally entertainments OF a
high order are given. The immense business
house on the main floor is controlled by Messrs.
Wight C Leutz, and is not surpassed outside OF
the city in Baltimore county. Through the entire
section there is happy unanimity of kindly feel
ing with farmers, merchants, steel workers, marble
workers, carriage builders and distillerymen and
politics even does not raise unneighborly ire
They chiefly unite as to VIM. II. Wight being one
of the mainstays of the region and his being as
transformations as he is able in business and ever
genial in society.
Along these turnpikes are many OF the grandest
farms in the country and description of the eel
ebrated "Hayields" 1 forwarded you last week.
| CARSwELL.
Jurors for the May Term Of Court
Judge Fowler drew the following jurors on Thurs
day, to serve at the May term of Court, which
commences on the third Monday of the month:
| Elias Liyezev.......... 1LOrrick M. Gent.......